OK, who is going to tell Fischer that buttsecks isn’t a ghey-only thing?

the fact remains that 25% of the states in the Union still regard it as criminal behavior

And yet the producers, director, and cast of the American Pie movies remain inexplicably unprosecuted.

The Crow that Dare Not Speak Its Name

This.

Related to the song about John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

You brought up that song? A song that developed in a milieu of anti-German and anti-Irish prejudice in the 1840s or so? Next thing you liberals will be doing is making fun of Swedish Americans by claiming they are all named Jan Jansen and are all from Wisconsen.

This only goes to show that liberals are the true racists and conservatives are the unprejudiced ones.

See! Look what I can write! Can I have some of that sweet, sweet wingnut welfare now? I could use some extra $$$$

Seriously now, I think Fischer just came out in favor of barring blacks from the Supreme Court due to Jim Crow.

BTW — not just any blacks but a specific black person. Let’s consider this again:

engages routinely in behavior that was still a felony in every state in the Union as recently as 1962 and a felony in the other 49 states until 1972.

When was Loving v. Virginia decided? Which of our Supreme Court Justices is of the African-American persuasion and married to a woman of the Caucasian Persuasion? So did Fischer oppose Thomas’ nomination?

I guess since Mrs. Thomas’ name is Virginia, that makes it ok — Loving v. Virginia must have been a frivolous lawsuit against Mrs. Thomas and those activist judges who ruled against Mrs. Thomas are one of the reasons why we need tort reform?

(watch for an addled conservatron to seriously make that above argument in 5, 4, 3 …

The Biden/Kinnock accusation was that in a couple of speeches in 1987, Biden didn’t attribute a passage to the British Labour Party head, after having properly attributed it on multiple prior occasions — i.e., the accusation equals slide whistle fail-sound going ee-yoop with muffled crash and soda can bouncing. On the other hand, in his first year of law school, in 1965, Biden copied a considerable amount of legal prose from a law review article into various spots in into a paper, citing the source only once. This is at least a single razz on a tuba. Biden was exonerated

It’s worse than this. One of the people who “broke” this story was none other than Maureen Dowd, who herself (as Michael Moore revealed) is a plagiarist (the Times covered this up and then went on and gave her an Op-Ed column so she could be catty and pretend to be a liberal in order to make liberals look bad. IIRC, the delicious irony is that Dowd plagiarized in reporting on Biden’s supposed plagiarism, but I might be remembering something that didn’t happen in as “Hollywood” of a manner as I remember it.

Shall I go for 4 in a row?

Let’s see if I have this correctly:

1. GOoPer starts a (presumably false) rumor about a potential SCOTUS nominee being gay

2. The rumor was started in a conspicuous enough forum that the WH responded … in a Seinfeldian “not that there’s anything wrong with that” manner

3. And then another GOoPer accuses us libs of being anti-gay?

I guess the GOP’s strategy is that people who’s heads have exploded are more likely to vote Republican? Because they make my head explode …

DAS, close your bloody brackets… if been drinking at lunchtime, and almost run out of breath there……

close your bloody brackets

Veiled menstruation…ah, never mind.

A fundamental requirement of a judge is impartiality. He is to be as impartial as an umpire or a referee. His responsibility is to take rules written by others (including and above all the Constitution) and faithfully and neutrally apply them without bias or favoritism, and without changing the rules in the middle of the game to give the advantage to the team he happens to like best.

So, having a gay guy on the Supreme Court compromises impartiality… but on the other hand, it’s perfectly legit to nominate homophobes (e.g. Republicans).

What’s wrong with this picture?

A fundamental requirement of a judge is impartiality. He is to be as impartial as an umpire or a referee.

Clearly, only white, christian men are capable of this sort of lofty impartiality.

of course, add ‘heterosexual’ to that list of impartial qualifications.

She says she’s got gay friends, but she wouldn’t nominate them to the high court, let them babysit, or let them be on each others health insurance plan. How’s that constitutional-scholar-as-president thingy workin’ out for ya? 2012, baby, is just around the corner, you betcha! (miscellaneous winking interspersed randomly throughout.)

Clearly, only white, christian men are capable of this sort of lofty impartiality.

Ah, Crow Magnon.

Holy shit. Between the prairie dog video* and “The Crow that Dare Not Speak its Name,” I cannot stop laughing.

*I have watched that at least 100 times and it never fails to make me giggle like an idiot.

Many of the sodomy laws were defined such that *oral* sex between unmarried people of any sex was illegal, and in some states (AL and VA,maybe GA) even marriage didn’t get you out of that one.

The pool of potential Supremes is pretty damn small

The problem with Cornyn’s position is that a gay judge’s sexual preference will, without any question whatsoever, “interfere with their job.” It’s not possible for it to be otherwise.

Clearly, “Bryan” (who clearly is at least metrosexual, else why have such an effeminate spelling?) believes that “in chambers” really means “in dungeon” and Kagan and Ginsburg will have hot cunnilingus using various food stuffs as well as equipment confiscated by police in the notorious “Flynt v. Hoover Upright Vacuum” case.

If we elevate an open homosexual to the Supreme Court, we will be elevating someone who freely admits that he (generic use) engages routinely in behavior that was still a felony in every state in the Union as recently as 1962 and a felony in the other 49 states until 1972.

99 states? Oh, Bryan, it was 99 Luftballoons, you littlel leatherclad minx!

But what should we call it?

Bruce Crow
Adam and/or Steve Crow
Nancy Crow
Siegfried and/or Roy Crow
The Crow that Dare Not Speak Its Name

Oh come ON, Gav! “Drinky Crow”!

I can’t believe I’ll be the first to say this:

A fundamental requirement of a judge is impartiality. He is to be as impartial as an umpire or a referee.

You mean how like Scalia recused himself for that Cheney case? In a different universe, I mean. The one that actually works.

Gavin, as I mentioned acouple of hundred comments in a previous thread— Surber writes for the CHARLESTON WV Daily Mail.

Charlotte is in Virginia.

Please fix!

Adam and/or Steve Crow

That should be Adam and Steven Crow.

Clearly, only white, christian men are capable of this sort of lofty impartiality.

Not so fast. Are you including Irishmen? How could an Irishman be a judge?

Also, I vote for Crow T. Robot Law. I don’t know what it is, but I like the sound of it.

Charlotte is in Virginia.

Isn’t Charlotte in North Carolina? Or did I miss something?

Good job with the Drinky Crow reference, Actor. I’m still a little traumatized by that cartoon they made for SNL ten years ago.

Charlotte is in Virginia.

INTEREST!

Website? Newsletter?

Gavin, as I mentioned acouple of hundred comments in a previous thread— Surber writes for the CHARLESTON WV Daily Mail.

Eek. It’s even the same typo, copied and pasted…

I’m still a little traumatized by that cartoon they made for SNL ten years ago

I have a timer set for Robot Chicken and one Monday, Drinky popped up. I’ve been hooked ever since.

So Gavin? What’s the next Surber pun? “Surber Overloaded”? “Don: John’s Un”? This isn’t like BenD and the Jets. This one’s going take werk!

Surber Dude

It is that third thing that is amusing.

The secret of comedy revealed!

Clearly, only white, christian men are capable of this sort of lofty impartiality.

Clearly. Except for Clarence Thomas. And even then, they don’t really trust him, but their need to have a token outweighs their fear that he will think with his skin color.

And yes, I just watched that prairie dog video three more times.

Surber Dude

I hate you.

Silber Surber (or some variation)

Clearly. Except for Clarence Thomas. And even then, they don’t really trust him, but their need to have a token outweighs their fear that he will think with his skin color.

not to mention he is married to a WHITE woman, and it wasn’t that long ago that that was against the law! In many states of this great country!

not to mention he is married to a WHITE woman, and it wasn’t that long ago that that was against the law! In many states of this great country!

All 99 in fact!

Don Our Gay Apparel
Don of The Age of Aquarius

Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip your Surber.

not to mention he is married to a WHITE woman, and it wasn’t that long ago that that was against the law! In many states of this great country!

I’ll bet he drinks out of the same drinking fountains as white people. He is obviously unqualilfied for the bench.

Also, have y’all ever noticed that, according to conservatives, women and people of color are irredeemably biased UNLESS they’re conservative? So, apparently, my uterus is only allowed to vote if it’s against her fundamental interests.

I hate you.

Your tears are sweet, sweet nectar to me. Which I guess makes me a hummingbird of hate.

It is that third thing that is amusing.

The secret of comedy revealed!

Detroit, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo. Hey, it works!

Welp, the Wall Street Journal has sunk to a new low.

“The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today. It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents (doctors, insurance companies, Wall Street, talk radio, Fox News) in order to portray their regime as the great healer of all our ills, thus expanding their power and control over our society.”

Excuse me. I’m going to go watch that prairie dog video ten more times.

non-conservative uteri must be relegated back to the kitchen.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

non-conservative uteri must be relegated back to the kitchen.

Wow. He should be aware that liberal women are terrible cooks–we’re too busy ball-busting and growing armpit hair to practice our beurre blanc skills.

I’m going to go watch that prairie dog video ten more times.

If you say “prairie dog” three time in front of a mirror, he appears and eats your brane nuts.

ZOMFG somebody stop me from reading the comments on that Rush Limbaugh “column.”

Oh, and that’s not just one dude telling her to go back to the kitchen! It’s a whole committee!

Sorry. My feeble female brain has trouble reading for comprehension. I’ll go start my meatloaf now.

The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today.

You gotta love the way THE MEDIA loves to disparage THE MEDIA as if they’re talking about some other MEDIA that has nothing to do with the perfectly objective MEDIA you’re reading right now.

VPR

Which I guess makes me a hummingbird of hate.

Um.

Ew?

It is that third thing that is amusing.

Detroit, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo. Hey, it works!

Then why isn’t Ku Klux Klan the funniest joke ever?

I stepped off the boat and into the mango grove of the comments to Rush’s article.

you bozo…Goebbels was a socialist

I miss George.

Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww baby food muffins! EWWWWW.

ZOMFG somebody stop me from reading the comments on that Rush Limbaugh “column.”

Veiled feces reference.

Actually, an interesting fact about Don Suber is that his two middle names, Nathan Allen, almost never appear. Sometimes he will write them as initials:
Don NA Suber
But that just reveals the game. “Don Suber” is really some spanish royalty in hiding. The carefully thick writing and uneducated persona are to throw her potential enemies (Zemblan revolutionaries) off her track. In this way, she can start over again in Appalachia.

Don Our Gay Apparel
Don of The Age of Aquarius

BLAM!

There it is!

Don of the Dead
Don, Go Away

and of course…and this should have been a gimme…

Tony Or Lando and Don.

Suber The Little Readers Who Come Unto Him.

They Also Surb Who Sit And Waste

Then why isn’t Ku Klux Klan the funniest joke ever?

They misspelled Klan! Ha ha!

Don really wants to be The Usurber.

Don NA Suber

A truer “not applicable” was never written.

It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents

Those evil libs, look at them demonizing their opponents, sez the WSJ.

I do not hate the government, as the left does when it is not running it.

Christ. That Limbaugh column is a masterpiece of projection.

Christ. That Limbaugh column is a masterpiece of projection.

Right? Though I’m particularly in love with the “violence card” idea…

Right? Though I’m particularly in love with the “violence card” idea…

I’ve often wondered how hard it would be to gather together a team and commandeer Limbaugh’s program. Or Hannity. I think TV might be the more effective medium, but if I can get Limbaugh to crap his panties on the radio, that might be more fun.

I’ve often wondered how hard it would be to gather together a team and commandeer Limbaugh’s program.

That would so be worth getting arrested for.

That sentence really sucks. Wev.

That would so be worth getting arrested for.

The icing on the cake would be the made-for-TV movie, the book deal and tour, and the invitation to perform on Dancing With The Stars.

and the invitation to perform on Dancing With The Stars.

I’d rather be on Oprah.

I’d rather be on Oprah.

You’re a woman. I don’t have that asset.

Christ. That Limbaugh column is a masterpiece of projection.

First off, whoever linked to that Limbaugh column can go screw.

Now the liberals run the government and they’re using their power to implement their radical agenda.

I really can’t stand myself, and other liberals, sometimes. They are always trying to use government to help people. Liberals want nothing more but to destroy America from within through legislation; radicals are always use the proper channels. Conservatives, on the other foot, have to right idea: drop bombs, collect paychecks. That is how you get shit done.

You’re a woman. I don’t have that asset.

True. But I can’t dance. At all.

Altho I’d probably become a regular on Olbermann and Maddow, which would be cool enough.

True. But I can’t dance. At all.

Clearly, you’ve never seen the show.

First off, whoever linked to that Limbaugh column can go screw.

Sorry. Watch the prairie dog video a few times–it’ll help cleanse your brain.

Or Jedi Prairie Dog

Sorry. Watch the prairie dog video a few times–it’ll help cleanse your brain.

It was YOU T&U?! Have you no decency, madam?! It’s Friday for crying (which I am) out loud!

Altho I’d probably become a regular on Olbermann and Maddow, which would be cool enough.

That would be awesome. OMG ESPECIALLY if I were on Maddow and John Hodgman was on at the same time. My brain would have an orgasm.

True. But I can’t dance. At all.

Clearly, you’ve never seen the show.

No, I haven’t. I’d still imagine Kate Gosselin is a better dancer than I am, though…

Kate Gosselin

If there is one person who needs to swill a bottle of vodka and drive the wrong way on the Teconic, it’s her. Mind you, I do not wish for anyone in the car besides her but..

Too soon?

It was YOU T&U?! Have you no decency, madam?! It’s Friday for crying (which I am) out loud!

I can’t help it. It’s like, when something smells bad and you hold it in their face and say “Smell this!” I have to share the disgust.

Too soon?

No. She pretty much embodies everything I hate in this world. The only person I can think of who is more repulsive is her douchebag Ed Hardy wearing ex-husband.

I’d still imagine Kate Gosselin is a better dancer than I am, though…

Well, she does have that stick up her ass…

If there is one person who needs to swill a bottle of vodka and drive the wrong way on the Teconic, it’s her.

She’d actually improve the public image of DWI if she did that.

Man, is there a better Friday morning song than “Redemption Song” by Bob Marley?

Man, is there a better Friday morning song than “Redemption Song” by Bob Marley?

I agree…but how bout some rock?

Fun fact: I used to think that the company that made animated films was Disnep.

The Black Keys?

Affirmative action clown…why are you discriminating against the white keys????

Or Jedi Prairie Dog

I saw that one, too. I watched the regular version, then before closing YouTube saw the little “related video” screencap. “Is that a, no way that’s a, oh my God”

Affirmative action clown…why are you discriminating against the white keys????

If it makes you feel any better, there are the Plain White T’s. Although they fucking suck.

Clearly, it should be called “Rainbow Crow”.

“Is that a, no way that’s a, oh my God”

There used to be one, and I’m sure it’s still up there, where someone drew in a mustache, monocle, cape and top hat a la a Snidely Whiplash type character.

Given the whole “Downfall” debacle this week, it wouldn’t surprise me if that was purged somehow.

Affirmative action clown…why are you discriminating against the white keys????

The black ones have more soul.

Clearly, it should be called “Rainbow Crow”.

Bingo. We have a winner.

Why do they think it’s so funny to tell people like me* to get back in the kitchen, or make them a sammich? Don’t they know what I can do to their sammiches? One peanut butter, jelly, and arsenic sammich, coming right up.

*non-male hominids

The black ones have more soul.

And yet they’re smaller. Therefore they are denser. RACIST!

non-male hominids

Can such things be?

One peanut butter, jelly, and arsenic sammich, coming right up.

I prefer broken glass…I don’t want to kill anyone, just make them suffer.

The black ones have more soul.

And yet they’re smaller.

Veiled non-stereotypical penis reference.

non-male hominids

Can such things be?

Think “Charlotte is in Virginia”.

Oh, wait, “hominids”. Nevermind.

don’t want to kill anyone, just make them suffer.

Try finely-ground fiberglass in the salt shaker…not that I have any experience with such a thing.

Try finely-ground fiberglass in the salt shaker…

Ooh, that’s a good one!

Try finely-ground fiberglass in the salt shaker

Especially since in no way does it make your food saltier, thus ensuring re-shaking over and over and over and…

Did you know that Obama is secretly the Pentagon?

Neither did I!

But then 3., the White House acts as if being gay is a bad thing.

No, they act as if LYING is a bad thing, even when it’s lying about someone being gay. They also act as if stereotypes are bad, especially when out-dated.

The Crow that Dare Not Speak Its Name

Tee hee!

He should be aware that liberal women are terrible cooks–we’re too busy ball-busting and growing armpit hair to practice our beurre blanc skills.

Speak for yourself; I’ve found advanced ball-busting skills to be a huge help in the kitchen.

It’s like, when something smells bad and you hold it in their face and say “Smell this!” I have to share the disgust.

My husband says “are you crazy? No way am I smelling that!” Who does that? It’s practically not human!

practice our beurre blanc skills

Veiled masturbation reference

Who does that? It’s practically not human!

Yeah! You’re supposed to smell it, become disgusted, and then become angry with the person who asked you to smell it. We’ve been doing it since caveman times!

You’re supposed to smell it, become disgusted, and then become angry with the person who asked you to smell it.

I had a friend who owned a chain of bakeries and every new employee was subjected to a joke similar to that.

*sniffsniff* This cake doesn’t smell fresh. Does it smell fresh to you?

(newbie leans in)

(cake gets mushed in newbie’s face)

(cruel boss laughs…other employees cringe in horror)

The Lawrence decision of 2003, an egregious act of judicial activism, prohibited enforcement of these laws, but the fact remains that 25% of the states in the Union still regard it as criminal behavior.

Wheee, further proof that for wingnuts “judicial activism” = “judges doing stuff we don’t like”. I guess Bryan figures the government SHOULD be in the bedroom, as long as it’s stopping icky ghey buttsechx. Heads we win, tails you lose! blar ar blurpr blurp

engages routinely in behavior

What, whistles at the same gender? Says that handbag doesn’t go with those shoes? Hey, Don, for your information, being ghey isn’t felonious anywhere. Yet more “they get more than us hets do” bullshit as well. Why, what a wonderful breakfast buffet of wingnuttia on a Friday morn. Thanks, Gavin!

I had a friend who owned a chain of bakeries and every new employee was subjected to a joke similar to that.

Wow, that’s an asshole joke. One of the sandwich guys at one of the bakeries I used to work at did the whole, “Does this smell bad to you?” thing to me with a big container of horseradish. That HURT.

“I’ve found advanced ball-busting skills to be a huge help in the kitchen.”

I think I’m gonna pass on that dinner invite…….

Speak for yourself; I’ve found advanced ball-busting skills to be a huge help in the kitchen.

Oh, they are fucking INVALUABLE in a restaurant kitchen. Pretty much the only way to get by in 90% of places.

My husband says “are you crazy? No way am I smelling that!” Who does that? It’s practically not human!

Does male pride mean nothing to you?

Does male pride mean nothing to you?

And they wonder why we leave the seat up…

And they wonder why we leave the seat up…

Mine doesn’t.

Although what the fuck is with male friends visiting and leaving the seat up? You’re probably playing my video games, drinking my beer, and eating my food. You can’t at least put the seat down, assholes?

But I thought that Southern symbols of the Civil War were expressions of the First Amendment and slavery never existed in Virginia!

You’ve got video games and a buffet in the toilet? I’m visiting now.

You’ve got video games and a buffet in the toilet? I’m visiting now.

Yup. It’s pretty sweet. Also, a kegerator.

I’m pretty sure that the behavior alluded to is, in fact, that crazy hand-jive.

Also, a kegerator.

You’re not fooling me! I saw that in Men In Black II

Chicken Crow, or maybe by its name in Spanish, Pollo Cuervo.

Also, a kegerator.

Hopefully unleashed and hungry.

I know why the caged crow sings.

I had a friend who owned a chain of bakeries and every new employee was subjected to a joke similar to that.

Now there’s a dude who’s going to be found in the oven one day.

Wheee, further proof that for wingnuts “judicial activism” = “judges doing stuff we don’t like”.

No kidding. Courts finding that unconstitutional laws are unconstitutional is not judicial activism, it’s what courts DO, and states wanting to continue to act in an unconstitutional manner doesn’t magically make it judicial activism.

Sitzpinkling was illegal in 49 states until 2004.

itzpinkling was illegal in 49 states until 2004

What about sitztinkling? (See above re toilet seat position.)

It was the Nancy Crow era.

Now there’s a dude who’s going to be found in the oven one day.

Yea. Unfortunately it won’t be a wood-fired oven in a double wide. In addition to being a dick, he’s a rich Republican.

What about sitztinkling?

Most states are on the fence.

And they wonder why we leave the seat up…

Mine doesn’t.

Mine either. We have a friend who does, though. He’s also a splasher.

Sitztinkling, I ass ume, is the Americanization of sitzpinkling.

Sitztinkling, I ass ume, is the Americanization of sitzpinkling.

Quite possibly. I’m on deadline and my finely-honed sense of how much time I can waste has limited me to only website – this one.

Sitztinkling, I ass ume, is the Americanization of sitzpinkling.

Minus the effeminate implications, yes.

We have a friend who does, though. He’s also a splasher.

I fucking hate that shit. If you can’t use the potty like a grown-up, then just sit down.

Although it could be worse. My brothers just left the toilet seat down and peed all over it. Nasty.

The whole “smell this” thing has a parallel in the stuff we tell other people too. Like the other day when I brought up the things that pedophile had said. Some things you hear or read and they stick in your head like a hair in the back of your throat; the only way to deal with them is to tell someone else, so that at least you have company in your misery.

Speaking of disgusting things, have you guys heard about this?

I’m going to go cry now.

Sitzpinkling?

What about sleeve jobs?

T&U – oh, thanks.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot.

Now I know why my husband wouldn’t tell me what it actually was when he mentioned it the other day…he’s much nicer than I am, I suppose.

Well, I suppose I owe you one, since the pedo stuff almost made you vomit the other day.

Stephen Baldwin owes $2.3m so some of his Christian pals have set up a website to pay off his debt. Of course it’s because those horrible atheists in Hollywood who mock God won’t give him a job (and you have to pay for his lifestyle or the godless win). Nothing to do with his lack of talent. Maybe he can star in “An American Carol 2: The Usurper Strikes Black”.

Well, I suppose I owe you one, since the pedo stuff almost made you vomit the other day.

Yeah, if I had the choice between hearing about some morally evil shit and just some repulsive, disgusting shit (literally or figuratively), I think I’d choose the latter. Most of the time.

That said, I’m very sorry. I don’t think I can eat lunch now.

Whenever a prominent politician is unmarried, or marries late in life, some jerk invariably starts a rumor that he or she is gay. I’ve never known that not to happen, no matter if the subject/victim is a lefty (Janet Reno) or a righty (Joe McCarthy, Lindsay Graham).

What’s new is the rhetorical flourish that allows each side to accuse the other of hypocrisy.

When it’s a lefty: “Ha ha, liberals think being gay is an insult!”

When it’s a righty: “Ha ha, conservatives don’t practice what they preach!”

What’s not new is that gay people get shit on, no matter the circumstances.

I don’t think I can eat lunch now.

Just think happy thought. Imagine that your lunch is a unicorn-haunch sandwich seasoned with some of Actor’s sweet, sweet tears.

has anybody been Counting Crows?

That said, I’m very sorry. I don’t think I can eat lunch now.

After that thing from jim yesterday, NO FUCKING WAY am I clicking that link.

tag fail. I’ll go back to work now.

“Just think happy thought. Imagine that your lunch is a unicorn-haunch sandwich seasoned with some of Actor’s sweet, sweet tears.”

Sounds better than tigris’ big steaming bowl of crushed testicles.

Imagine that your lunch is a unicorn-haunch sandwich

But I don’t eat my friends!!!!!

After that thing from jim yesterday, NO FUCKING WAY am I clicking that link.

I think it’s pretty much inevitable you’ll hear about it eventually. It’s one of those things a la 2 G***s, 1 C*p.

But I don’t eat my friends!!!!!

There are some straight-lines even I won’t touch.

There are some straight-lines even I won’t touch.

Understandable. Figured it was worth setting up.

T&U – ok, the worst thing in your link? It’s the bit about the German scientist screaming “feed her!” to the Japanese dude. But that’s only because I refused to link on the videos.

Sounds better than tigris’ big steaming bowl of crushed testicles.

But buerre blanc!

Actually, they’re alla ballognese.

But I don’t eat my friends!!!!!

So it’s not a friendtipede.

It’s the bit about the German scientist screaming “feed her!” to the Japanese dude.

Right? I almost died.

I didn’t watch any of the videos, either. That was enough to scar me for life, thankyouverymuch.

That would be awesome. OMG ESPECIALLY if I were on Maddow and John Hodgman was on at the same time. My brain would have an orgasm.

I once exchanged e-mails with Hodgman back before he was as famous. Made me feel so cool when I saw him on the Daily Show. Yeah, I’m a dork.

I agree…but how bout some rock?

That Black Keys video is great. I love those guys, but I think they need a harp player to make it into a trio. They should obviously pick me.

Shorter Human Centipede: Two girls, One Jap.

I once exchanged e-mails with Hodgman back before he was as famous. Made me feel so cool when I saw him on the Daily Show. Yeah, I’m a dork.

No, that’s totally awesome. He and Maddow are my number one nerdcrushes.

He and Maddow are my number one nerdcrushes.

Somewhere, the last remnant of Bill Gates’s soul is weeping. [I’ve got a smile on my face just typing that.]

BTW, Oregon Snob, I gave you a shout out on the new post over at my place.

I’ve exchanged emails with Helen Thomas, Joe Conason, Gene Lyons and Victor Davis Hanson. The last one was the most fun; it went back and forth for quite some time.

I’ll go start my meatloaf now.

I really want that to be a euphamism for something.

For the record, one of my favorite alcoholic beverages is a shiso infused shochu, distilled from sweet potatoes. I can’t even get the stuff here, so I hoard my scant supply, doling out tiny portions every so often. I treat this stuff like that Hogan guy treats incandescent lightbulbs.

Somewhere, the last remnant of Bill Gates’s soul is weeping. [I’ve got a smile on my face just typing that.]

Oh, his run has been far, far too long.

Plus, I usually have political/literary nerdcrushes because I actually know what the fuck they’re talking about.

I’ve exchanged emails with Helen Thomas, Joe Conason, Gene Lyons and Victor Davis Hanson.

Very cool. I heart Helen Thomas so, so much.

True story, maybe Jennifer can confirm: There was a town in Arkansas named “Blue Ball.” I said “was” because, well, obviously there ain’t no procreatin’ goin’ on……..

And, yes, I am obsessed with testicles today, thanks to tigris. And my legs keep crossing in a most defensive manner.

“I’ll go start my meatloaf now.

I really want that to be a euphamism for something.”

Please stay away from tigris’ kitchen.

Yep, Blue Ball is still there. Haven’t been through there lately – it’s way out in the middle of nowhere in the national forest.

The court in currently packed with conservative catholics, Opis Dei types. Can we count on them to be objective about religion cases? Or abortion challenges (considering the cath. church is anti-abortion). How about cases concerning Priests molesting children?

Smedley, there’s a place called Blue Ball in Pennsylvania…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ball,_Pennsylvania

Also, there’s Intercourse, Pennsylvania…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse,_Pennsylvania

My email from Helen Thomas was just this:

“Thank you.”

I had written her just to say thanks on behalf of those of us who felt like questions needed to be asked, for being about the only member of the press who would ask them.

BTW, Oregon Snob, I gave you a shout out on the new post over at my place.

[swooning]Thanks![/swooning]

And on the off-topic geekery topic: SCIENCE! (completely safe for work).

Contains nuggets of paragraphical awesomeness like this:

They proved this by working out that the beauty with the antimatter bottom, after travelling about 2 millimetres, exploded and turned into a shower of other subatomic gumble including a Kaon (which is, as any fule kno, one of four types of meson whose strangeness is non-zero) and a thing known as an “excited charmonium”. The latter then came to bits again again, as you’d expect, into a muon and an anti-muon.

On the subject of town names, there’s a “Fucking, Austria” and the best part is somebody’s naming a beer “Fucking Hell” after it:

The EU’s trademarks authority has permitted a German firm to brew beer and produce clothing under the name “Fucking Hell”. It may be an expletive in English, but in German it could refer to a light ale — Hell — from the Austrian town of Fucking. Whether it will be brewed there is another question.

(That’s from this article.)

Abi Titmuss, is unrelated to this but is also an awesome name.

The cool thing about Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is that it’s where you make Buffalo jump and smash their heads in.

“‘Yes, we can create mass from energy using the famous Einstein formula E=mc2,’ report the LHCb boffins, with pardonable smugness.”

Holy crap!

Also, I am still very stoked at the idea that they might be able to find out what happened to all the primordial anti-matter….eeeeee!

They proved this by working out that the beauty with the antimatter bottom

Pretty girls particles make graves.

Blue Ball PA is not that far from Intercourse. I’ve been to both. Way back when Virginia first did their “Virginia is for lovers” campaign, a popular bumper sticker in PA was “Virginia may be for lovers but only Pa. has Intercourse.”

I once exchanged e-mails with Hodgman back before he was as famous.

In his latest book, there’s a picture of Hodgman hanging out at a party with Zach Galifianakis and Food Network’s Sandra Lee. That’s half of a dream dinner party — just imagining Hodgman and Galifianakis commenting on Lee’s food and tablescapes makes me laugh.

You always knew antimatter would turn out to be a bottom, didn’t you?

My e-mail exchange with Hodgman was when he was doing the “Ask A Former Professional Literary Agent” series at McSweeney’s.

I asked a question and he e-mailed me about it and then it was published. I am so cool.

Pretty girls particles make graves.

Oh ho ho. Veiled Kerouac/The Smiths reference.

Jennifer said,

April 23, 2010 at 18:34 (kill)

T&U – oh, thanks.

Thanks a lot.

See, you ought to listen to Cory and Jay on Friday mornings. Patrick was all over that one months ago (when it went into production).

Also, I am still very stoked at the idea that they might be able to find out what happened to all the primordial anti-matter….eeeeee!

It was shaped into people like my ex-boss. He had a personality so negative that when he walked into a room people asked “who left?”

Thanks for posting that excerpt, OBS. The URL had me quite worried: http:// blah blah lhc_beauty_antibottom

In his latest book, there’s a picture of Hodgman hanging out at a party with Zach Galifianakis and Food Network’s Sandra Lee.

I know, right? So brilliant. And Zach Galifanakis KILLS me.

This is pretty much my favorite.

Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww baby food muffins! EWWWWW.

They can’t be worse than the Kwanzaa cake, garnished with Corn Nuts.

Stephen Baldwin owes $2.3m so some of his Christian pals have set up a website to pay off his debt.

Steve-o and I have had some dust-ups in the past…I called him a lousy X-Files actor and he took offense…so maybe I should own his soul make it up to him and pay this off for him.

Nah! It would spoil the fun of rubbing his failure nose in it, and also we can now string him up for being a socialist and welfare cheat.

garnished with Corn Nuts

Many eunuch ears now blush.

This is pretty much my favorite.

That’s awesome! And I love his Powell’s Books t-shirt. That place rules. So easy to spend a day wandering through all the books.

Rachel also had a couple people from the Angostura bitters company on last week, which was neat.

Smedley, there’s a place called Blue Ball in Pennsylvania…

Also, there’s Intercourse, Pennsylvania…

If you draw a line between Blue Ball and Intercourse, you’ll find Virginville along it.

That’s not a joke.

“Fucking Hell”

ya, another Gift from ze germans

i saw this guy on den teevee once, his name was Sternhell. ya, i thought, dot’s tough, he’s not just hell, he’s a stern hell

of course if you translate it, it’s Starbright

They can’t be worse than the Kwanzaa cake, garnished with Corn Nuts.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I don’t have sound–was that marshmallow creme she was “frosting” it with? And canned apples? And what was the reasoning behind the Corn Nuts? Was she high???

That said, I’m very sorry. I don’t think I can eat drink lunch now.

Fixed for Fridayness.

unicorn-haunch sandwich seasoned with some of Actor’s sweet, sweet tears

Now with pomegranate maragarita flavoring!

There are some straight-lines even I won’t touch.

And yet you touched….oh wait, he curves left…

And I love his Powell’s Books t-shirt.

Right? Pretty much the icing on the cake, though the Red Bull is pretty great, too.

My other favorite thing is when he’s on The Best Show with Tom Scharpling and sometimes Paul F. Tompkins.

shiso infused shochu, distilled from sweet potatoes. I can’t even get the stuff here

Dude, you’re kidding, right?

antimatter bottom

So being on top matters?

if tu quoque were an ethical principle

the traditional study of logical fallacies is too subtle to apply to wingnuts and teabaggers. since the classical students of rhetoric failed to visit 6th grade during recess. to classify the fallacies (smirk, smirk, you said ‘fallacies’) of fuckbrainistan, we need to go back to the drawing board. some suggestions:

tu poopoohead

argumentum ad a liberal said it

IOIYAR (it’s ok if you’re a republican)

He had a personality so negative that when he walked into a room people asked “who left?”

baDUMching!

“The latter then came to bits again again, as you’d expect, into a muon and an anti-muon.”

Well, duh!

antimatter bottom

i think the difference between mutter and antimutter is more important

mutter and antimutter

Antimutter was the woman pater brought home when he was drunk.

I’m confoosed.

Have they actually proved the existance of quarks in the LHC? Did I miss something?

The good news is that the LHC has proved the existence of quarks. The bad news is that the resultant black hole will eat the earth tomorrow.

Have they actually proved the existance of quarks in the LHC?

Not yet, no. It’s not even a fully armed and operational Death Star machine.

The Higgs Boson has been keeping it from working.

I’m confoosed.

Have they actually proved the existance of quarks in the LHC? Did I miss something?

Now *I’m* confoosed, because I thought they had observed all quarks before the LHC was even built?

I thought they had observed all quarks before the LHC was even built

Only the ones they found.

I thought quarks had been a done deal for decades. The LHC was designed to search for the Higgs Boson, which is um… well… uh… well its not a quark anyway.

^ is slow on the switch today apparently

mutter and anti-mutter

Not all that far from Intercourse, Mutter.

Only the ones they found.

But I thought there were only 6 according to theory? I mean, I know that they haven’t been able to isolate them before, but I thought they were pretty much a given based on collider observation and theory?

It’s hard to tell, it’s quite sciencey. From CERN article:

LHCb has reconstructed its first Beauty Particle! You can see below a computer view of this event in two projections. The Beauty Particle (called B+) is composed of an anti-quark b (that has a very short lifetime of 1.5 thousandth of a nanosecond!) and a quark u.

So, maybe? They’re sifting through millions of images snapped when the did their half-power 3.5GeV smash (now that was a partay!) a while back. But yeah, I thought the quarks were already a done deal, and they’re now looking for the more exotic stuff. I don’t pay much attention to these things though, despite working down the hall from the Physics Department…

T&U,

That’s correct, but that’s different than observing them. Quarks generally are not found free range, but in a quark-gluon plasma, IIRC.

The LHC was designed to search for the Higgs Boson, which is um… well… uh… well its not a quark

I think it stands on its own, whereas quarks are paired with each other.

That’s correct, but that’s different than observing them.

Okay, yeah, you’re right. I was using the term “observing” in a slippery, inexact way, which, uhh, doesn’t work for even elementary discussions of particle physics (which are the only ones I engage in).

But I thought there were only 6 according to theory?

Eight in all. You’re forgetting about the cute and anti-cute quarks.

The LHC was designed to search for the Higgs Boson, which is um… well… uh… well its not a quark

It’s the theoretical basis of mass. Without the Higgs Boson, other particles would not have mass.

And that’s about as far as my particle physics goes in that direction. The analogy I’ve heard is imagine a Hollywood star entering a room. Once he or she is recognized and a crowd amasses around him or her, as far as the room goes, (s)he’s nothing.

It’s the crowd (the Higgs Boson) that gives the star its mass.

Dumb analogy, but it makes more sense that way

You’re forgetting about the cute and anti-cute quarks

Or raw and cooked. That’s ten.

Which ones are free range? They sound yummy!

Incidentally, did you guys see this when it came out? I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere, but my real point is that people I thought were pretty smart were saying “OMG we’re a computer simulation or something!” It was rather disappointing.

All this talk about nuclear physics is hawt.

PS: I blame the Wachowski brothers for that shit.

Incidentally, did you guys see this when it came out?

It would explain fractals.

Incidentally, did you guys see this when it came out?

So you’re all a figment of my imagination? And I’m the only person in the universe?

I knew it! Pascal was right!

All this talk about nuclear physics is hawt.

I know. I wish I were smart enough (and/or persistent enough) to get it on a bigger scale.

A fundamental requirement of a judge is impartiality. He is to be as impartial as an umpire or a referee. His responsibility is to take rules written by others (including and above all the Constitution) and faithfully and neutrally apply them without bias or favoritism, and without changing the rules in the middle of the game to give the advantage to the team he happens to like best.

Another fundamental requirement is setting solid & beneficial precedents, which can spawn such socialist atrocities as desegregation, pay equity, seatbelt laws … & even human rights for children!

Give these fanatical progressive judges an inch & they’ll take it, I tell you – & THEIR FEE WILL BE A MILE.

I wish I were smart enough[…] to get it on a bigger scale.

Shake your money maker baby.

It would explain fractals.

As a math geek I have to ask, what “explanation” is needed?

Wheee! Standard Model geekeries!

Quarks can’t exist on their own – my understanding was that the energy required to separate one quark from another was larger than the amount of energy required to create new quarks to pair up with the existing ones. Apparently it’s a bit more complicated than that.

There are thirteen quarks – the six that everyone knows, their six anti-quark compliments, and the guy who ran the bar on DS9.

Bottom had been observed before in other particles such as Bottomonium and A Midsummers Night Dream so finding a B+ is no biggie. “Beauty particles” are a dime a dozen when you’re dealing with these Particularly Energetic Nuclear Investigation Systems – for values of dime reaching into the 12 figure range.

I had thought that it was the top quark that was the one being hunted down – but apparently it’s also been “observed” as well.

No, I think the big news is that LHC has a Beauty particle already. They’ve conducted what two or three collisions so far?

I gave up on quantum physics after reading A Brief History of Time and deciding that the way things work is so arbitrary on that level that it was pointless for me to follow along unless I was actually firing particles at other particles (which a friend of mine does).

So now I only pay attention to Gregg Easterbrook.

Shake your money maker baby.

Are you suggesting I trade sexual services for physics tutoring?

I wish I’d thought of that in college…

Well, I knew they (quarks) were theoretical at least – but I don’t remember any proof that they actually existed.

Speaking of “non-existant” I see Syria is claiming accusations of their use of SCUDs is equivalent to claims of WMD in Iraq. So that’s yet another thing Bush fucked up – now anyone merely has to claim “it’s just like Iraqi WMDs!” and they expect to get off scott free. Wheeee.

Bottom had been observed before in other particles such as Bottomonium and A Midsummers Night Dream

I am see’n what thou did there.

Are you suggesting I trade sexual services for physics tutoring?

I wish I’d thought of that in college…

I did think of that in college. It turns out it doesn’t work so well for a straight guy at an engineering college. Which is why I graduated with degrees in Fine Arts (theatre emphasis) and Industrial Technology management with a minor in plastic processing.
sigh.

No, I think the big news is that LHC has a Beauty particle already. They’ve conducted what two or three collisions so far?

Yeah, and I think they’ve just done the one at half power (3.5GeV). It’s hard to tell, but I think that’s where they found the Beauty mentioned in the article. And they’re still sifting through the results.

Should be even more interesting once they ramp up to full power.

It turns out it doesn’t work so well for a straight guy at an engineering college.

I am shocked–SHOCKED!–that this plan didn’t work.

I wish I’d thought of that in college…

I wrote a letter to the editor of my college newspaper (which the philistines chose not to publish) in which I suggested that an unused, school-owned building adjacent to campus be turned into a school-run brothel. Students on work-study would have the option of working lying down instead of standing and serving slop in the cafeteria.

As a math geek I have to ask, what “explanation” is needed?

Their existence, for one thing. What possible good is scalar self-similarity, if not as a way to store information?

Are you suggesting I trade sexual services for physics tutoring?

Is that what you meant by “bigger scale”???

That’s correct, but that’s different than observing them. Quarks generally are not found free range, but in a quark-gluon plasma, IIRC.

You pretty much have to destroy their homes to find them. Well, if you destroy enough, you can find them. Kind of like our anti-insurgent policy in Vietnam Afghanistan.

I wrote a letter to the editor of my college newspaper (which the philistines chose not to publish) in which I suggested that an unused, school-owned building adjacent to campus be turned into a school-run brothel.

Brilliant. And to think, all that time, I was giving it away for free!

Students on work-study would have the option of working lying down instead of standing and serving slop in the cafeteria.

Also, it would have come in handy for grade negotiations and teacher evaluations. Too.

Is that what you meant by “bigger scale”???

I have no idea what I meant.

SparklePENIS!

Should be even more interesting once they ramp up to full power.

3.5 TeV beams – 7 TeV totes, big news back on March 30, when they had their first collisions. They’ll never get up to 14 TeV since the long downtime caused a bunch of the magnets to lose their training (wev that means) but they are ramping up. IIRC, they’re shooting for just over 10 TeV.

I have no idea what I meant.

Have I shown you my etchings?

SparklePENIS!

I was momentarily unimpressed because I had heard about this a while ago. Then I realized it was on Christwire, and it is all KINDS of awesome.

Have I shown you my etchings?

I dunno. Do you know a lot about particle physics?

What possible good is scalar self-similarity, if not as a way to store information?

You don’t understand. My math major friends used to say their goal was to develop a theorem that had absolutely no application whatsoever. As a double math/CS major, I was accused of besmirching mathematics.

I am obsessed with testicles today, thanks to tigris.

It’s good to be able to feel one has really DONE something with one’s day.

But then 3., the White House acts as if being gay is a bad thing.

Hey Wingnuts, the anger you see isn’t from thinking you are smearing someone…
The anger comes from thinking what makes you think you deserve a fucking answer?

“It’s good to be able to feel one has really DONE something with one’s day.”

You……………………complete me.

Do you know a lot about particle physics?

Let’s find out, shall we?

My math major friends used to say their goal was to develop a theorem that had absolutely no application whatsoever

Any of them named Fourier?

You……………………complete me.

I think that, sans testicles, you’d be incomplete.

My friend says “A Serbian Film” is supposed to have a scene more horrifying than “Human Centipede.” And now I want to know what it is.

I need some sort of internet filter that forbids me from looking up things that will disgust me…

What Jim Manzi needs is support from David Frum.

I think that, sans testicles, you’d be incomplete.

Hey, now. Plenty of us are testicle-less, and we manage to live happy and fulfilling lives.

I think that, sans testicles, you’d be incomplete.

Oh really?

Plenty of us are testicle-less, and we manage to live happy and fulfilling lives.

But you’ve never known the joy of being testicled.

But you’ve never known the joy of being testicled.

Thank God.

When Anti-bottomed girls meet up with fat bottomed girls, under properly controlled circumstances, it can provide enough power for intra-galactic flight. Under uncontrolled cicumstances you get a catfight.

Ooh, thanks to Subby, I found John Cole’s take on the whole Manzi-Levin dust-up!

You all spent the last 30 years turning every issue into a binary construct, and then lying about half of the god damned equation, and now you are shocked that people’s minds are closed?

Under uncontrolled cicumstances you get a catfight.

Free range bottoms? It sounds more like a strip club than a catfight. Is there mud involved?

But you’ve never known the joy of being testicled.

Thank God.

You’ll never know the joys of teabagging. I mean the good kind.

It sounds more like a strip club than a catfight.

Now that you mention it, I believe you just may get a club where young Republicans will go to spend thousands of dollars.

You all spent the last 30 years turning every issue into a binary construct, and then lying about half of the god damned equation, and now you are shocked that people’s minds are closed?

Brilliant.

You’ll never know the joys of teabagging. I mean the good kind.

Again, thank God.

You’ll never know the joys of teabagging. I mean the good kind participating in it in the non-oral role.

Fecksed because some people quite enjoy doing it.

Jonah Goldberg thinks Ross Douthat is basically right.

Jonah Goldberg thinks that thing that was basically right is a pretty silly argument.

You’ll never know the joys of teabagging. I mean the good kind participating in it in the non-oral role.

Fecksed because some people quite enjoy doing it.

Okay, are we talking about literal teabagging, here? Or are there two different interpretations of teabagging? I only know about the balls-on-the-forehead kind of teabagging.

Fecksed because some people quite enjoy doing it

*nodding*

Not that I would know

*koffkoff*

FYWP.

Read this:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmEwNjQ3YThkYTVkNmEwN2QxMzQyNTUzMzIwNWY3YmY=

In what way does it differ from this?

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2FjMjI0Y2Y3NGY2Y2JkNjEwMTI5ZTg1ODgyMDAyM2U=

Let me say it now: I love Jonah Goldberg.

I only know about the balls-on-the-forehead kind of teabagging.

Um, that’s not the kind of teabagging I meant. I mean the kind where, as with a teabag, you dip them into warm water….of a sort.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagging

SMcG –

You can camouflage all you want, but them’s rotten mangoes with tigers nearby and I’m not going near.

Let me say it now: I love Jonah Goldberg.

Is this another moment where Jonah and K-Lo race to post the same column from the suite atop the Peninsula Motor Inn on I-95 by the airport?

They don’t go on the forehead. They go into something much more resembling a cup. And, as noted, some people enjoy that role. It’s like the pervasive but never recognized notion that most staright guys have that cucking cock is something the cocksucker doesn’t love doing.

Um, that’s not the kind of teabagging I meant. I mean the kind where, as with a teabag, you dip them into warm water….of a sort.

Ohhhhhhh. I’m not clicking on that link (I have to pretend like I care my work monitors what I look at), but I get it now. I only knew about the pranky, semi-homoerotic, let’s take pictures while our friend is passed out kind of teabagging.

You can camouflage all you want, but them’s rotten mangoes with tigers nearby and I’m not going near.

It’s actually good stuff: total self-pwnage from the master himself.

No, this is the sense of brewing a fine cup of chai or white jasmine tea.

Peej –

Depends on the cock-sucker, doesn’t it? Like pretty much everything else in sex.

It’s actually good stuff: total self-pwnage from the master himself.

Fudgie’s epistemic closure is so severe, he’s become anal-retentive.

I will give him credit for at least having a glimmer of self-awareness at the end of his Monday column “The conversation can be hard to break into” indeed!

It’s a little like trying to get a Tourette’s victim to sit still through an opera.

And, as noted, some people enjoy that role. It’s like the pervasive but never recognized notion that most staright guys have that cucking cock is something the cocksucker doesn’t love doing.

Well, um, yeah. Also that the cocksucker is somehow in a powerless role. Yeah, dudes, the most sensitive part of you is in someone’s mouth. Which has teeth. That bite. (Given you don’t like that sort of thing, of course).

I tried reading it three times, but my brain just…shut off. It’s like my brain cells were revolting against the pain it was causing.

It’s actually good stuff: total self-pwnage from the master himself.

I still think David Frum is a complete and utter ass – but SMcG is right, it’s a good read.

Also that the cocksucker is somehow in a powerless role.

It’s weird, because in straight porn, the woman giving head is usually moaning and squirming while (often, but not always) enjoying the pleasure she’s giving the man.

And this is straight porn, which is almost always shot from the male perspective on sex.

And yet, men somehow think women don’t enjoy giving a good one. Never understood that. Some women do not, but then I’ve dated women who basically wanted missionary-only sex and a shower afterwards. YMMV.

I still think David Frum is a complete and utter ass – but SMcG is right, it’s a good read.

I was endorsing the entertainment value of the Goldberg flip-flop there, but it’s nice to see conservatives ridicule the NRO even when THEY ARE NOT REALLY CONSERVATIVES BUT OBAMMUNISTS!

it’s nice to see conservatives ridicule the NRO even when THEY ARE NOT REALLY CONSERVATIVES BUT OBAMMUNISTS!

I’m wondering if we’re going to start to see a reverse-neo-con arabesque, in that 1960s liberals became disillusioned when their issues stopped being front and center of the Democratic party, so they drifted to Reaganism which supported a patriarchy.

Now that they’ve been dealt the hand that ultimately patriarchies deal all organizations (my way or the highway…look at post-revolutionary France), well, were Cole and Huffington the bellwethers of a new movement?

actor212 said,
April 23, 2010 at 21:37

Oh, I could say A LOT about this, but in short: IBTP, and, more specifically, the Madonna/whore complex and the idea of sex as conquest, blah blah blah…

OT: I apologize if this was covered already, but am I the only Angeleno who caught this on page 2 of the latest L.A. Weekly?

LA WEEKLY LA WEEKEND

DAY 1, FRIDAY MAY 21, 7-11 PM

SCHEDULED TO APPEAR:
(In no particular order)

JILL STEWART
MODERATES
THE BAD BOYS OF BLOGGING W/
ANDREW BREITBART,
MICKEY KAUSE [sic]
+ JOHN AMATO

(and just below, on the page)

AMY ALKON

I’m certainly not going, but by Odin’s beard, somebody here needs to go and report on it.

I was endorsing the entertainment value of the Goldberg flip-flop there

I missed that entire comment because I was too busy reading David Frum. I was talking about the 21:12 link, but seeing as how it deprived me of the opportunity of laughing at Pantload I have to recant my statement. Don’t read Frum, you might be missing out on Yet Another Weasel-y Squirming by Jonah.

But as both Andy and I have noted, global warming is an area that illuminates liberalism’s “epistemic closure” far, far, far more than the Right’s.

Jonah, you are so full of shit.

ANDREW BREITBART,
MICKEY KAUSE [sic]
+ JOHN AMATO

Dumb, Dumberer and Douchbag

I’m certainly not going, but by Odin’s beard, somebody here needs to go and report on it.

It sounds fucking awesome. Really. If I lived there, I would go in a heartbeat.

I’m wondering if we’re going to start to see a reverse-neo-con arabesque

I’m not sure what you meant after that, but I don’t see the majority of conservatives being impressed enough by honourable disloyalty to make flirtations with reality a trend.

I missed that entire comment because I was too busy reading David Frum.

Awwwww.

I’m not suggesting a wholesale migration back to reality, no. After all, the number of former “radical hippie lefties” who now serve at the feet of the GOP is pretty small.

But I suspect a chunk of high-ish profile names will start to drift back to the same galaxy as reality.

I am as of today phonetically satisfied

that’s a relief!

But I suspect a chunk of high-ish profile names will start to drift back to the same galaxy as reality.

That’s gotta happen. Despite all the ill I think of humanity as a whole, most people are unhappy when they have to tell lies all the time. Some are dumb/principled enough to lose pay over it.

Maybe WordPress doesn’t like the term “nun r***”?

Anyway, I don’t know why it surprises me.

AAAAAND FYWPX3.

Now that they’ve been dealt the hand that ultimately patriarchies deal all organizations (my way or the highway…look at post-revolutionary France), well, were Cole and Huffington the bellwethers of a new movement?

Somehow I don’t think a massive cluon explosion is in our future.

Somehow I don’t think a massive cluon explosion is in our future.

*polite golf clap*

Nicely played!

Martini?

them’s rotten mangoes with tigers nearby

Don’t forget the candiru.

But I suspect a chunk of high-ish profile names will start to drift back to the same galaxy as reality.

You mean when Scaife and Murdoch’s money runs out then Jonah/Broder/Bobo/Friedman/etc. will be ass-kissing on the left? Sure, but reality has nothing to do with it.

Don’t forget the candiru.

Make sure you blow them all out on your birthday cakeru

the idea of sex as conquest

I disagree entirely. Sex isn’t conquest. It’s a NSA-funded insurgency, using unregistered weapons to selectively kill the opponents’ leaders.

What?

most people are unhappy when they have to tell lies all the time. Some are dumb/principled enough to lose pay over it.

I don’t know. This really requires self-awareness that I’m not sure most of them have. I mean, *how* far to the right does the party have to move before they’ll give it up?

You mean when Scaife and Murdoch’s money runs out then Jonah/Broder/Bobo/Friedman/etc. will be ass-kissing on the left?

No.

Well, maybe Friedman. There’s still good in him. I sense it.

But look at David Brock or Arianna Huffington. Those are people who managed the transition nicely from right to left (in Brock’s case, it was what passes for a violent transition in politics) and managed to get on the gravy train. Huffington had some notoriety, and so her transition was harder but she was a conservative in California (which is practically a RINO) and was betrayed by her husband, which garnered her a lot of sympathy.

Plus, she was genuinely polite to people she disagreed with, like Al Franken.

I doubt as odious as Fudgie et al are, they can make the switch. It would require way too much ass-kissing.

Sex isn’t conquest.

It involves candy and flowers, so clearly sex is a liberation form tyranny

It’s a NSA-funded insurgency, using unregistered weapons to selectively kill the opponents’ leaders.

Oh, I laffed. Yes I did.

This really requires self-awareness that I’m not sure most of them have.

Oh sure, you have to be sharp enough to understand what the lie is. That’s a big hurdle apparently. I don’t see a Victoria Jackson conversion in the near future.

I mean, *how* far to the right does the party have to move before they’ll give it up?

Did anyone happen to catch John O’Hara on the Daily Show?

For those who don’t know, O’Hara is the “father” (I use quotes because he’s young enough to be my grandson) of the Teabagger Party movement.

Even tho he held some, um, hurtful beliefs, he seemed almost reasonable. I don’t think it’s the political positions left or right so much as the dogmatic insistence that Cole referred to that will drive people away.

I doubt as odious as Fudgie et al are, they can make the switch. It would require way too much ass-kissing.

Yeah, they’re stuck until the end, wherever it goes. But that’s what happens when you leverage your non-talent into spreading a toxic ideology that leads to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

I doubt as odious as Fudgie et al are, they can make the switch. It would require way too much ass-kissing.

Yes, that such a change would impose titanic cognitive dissonance – for those with the ability of self-refection.

Given the subjects in question, would you care to revise your position?

Yeah, they’re stuck until the end, wherever it goes.

They’re Red Klotz and the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters. The score will just keep ringing up against them and yet, they’ll play on, confident that if they can just get a few fouls called, they can win the game.

Oh, I’m not saying anyone would hire them, I’m just saying they’d change on a dime for enough dimes.

Given the subjects in question, would you care to revise your position?

Which part did you think was inconsistent? I said some of the right wing pundits will shift, but obviously not all of them will, even if they could.

I’m just saying they’d change on a dime for enough dimes.

I think there’s an ideological core of wingnuts for whom no amount of money could buy them off. Now, maybe deep in their unconscious, there will be the mechanism to try, or at least to wish they could, but the trump card will be that many of the beliefs they hold are genuine.

Jonah, for example: for him to switch party allegiances would require repudiating every book he’s ever written AND his mother. That’s just too deep a psychological hurt to self-inflict on someone so pathologically proud of himself and the fact he can poop in a toilet now.

Which part did you think was inconsistent?

Hell, Goldberg wakes up in a new world every day. As it is he contracdicts himself on a near-daily basis. I’m sure he’d change his ideology in a heartbeat for the money.

But since there will always be some righty* wanting “intellectual” support, I doubt Fudgie would have to go there. I’m just sure he would.

*How come these sumbitches so worried about the paucity of conservatives in academia don’t care about the dire shortage of liberal bankers?

You just have a higher opinion of Jonah than I do.

Live with that.

Did anyone happen to catch John O’Hara on the Daily Show?

I’m one of those obnoxious people who revels in her superiority for not having cable.

He is a fresh-faced little fucker, isn’t he? Well, I suppose if he wants to ally himself with people who don’t give a shit if his generation has decent healthcare and, like, a planet, that’s his priority.

And re: dogmatic insistence, I suppose that’s probably true. At the very least, it leads to more and more party purges where people are simply forced out.

Hell, Goldberg wakes up in a new world every day. As it is he contracdicts himself on a near-daily basis. I’m sure he’d change his ideology in a heartbeat for the money.

Point taken. I can’t say I’ve given this idea of mine much thought. I’m on deadline, so I exercise the right to reverse and extend my opinions 🙂

Somewhere, tho, there has to be a core contingent of people who will stick it out, if for no other reason than they feel they can grab power in a vacuum.

Live with that.

*cry*

Hell, Goldberg wakes up in a new world every day. As it is he contracdicts himself on a near-daily basis. I’m sure he’d change his ideology in a heartbeat for the money.

I’m not sure his greed would outweigh his cravenness. Tough call.

I’m one of those obnoxious people who revels in her superiority for not having cable.

There’s this invention, see, called the World Wide Web. Maybe you’ve heard of it, anyway….

I’m one of those obnoxious people who revels in her superiority for not having cable.

There’s this invention, see, called the World Wide Web. Maybe you’ve heard of it, anyway….

Also? I’m busy (outside of work hours). Suck it.

Also? I’m busy (outside of work hours). Suck it.

Must. Stop. Fingers.

Suck it.

Keep it up actor212, clearly your charm is wearing down her resistance.

😉

I’m trying hard to type with my inside fingers, 77. You aren’t helping!

It is that third thing that is amusing.

Retards laugh at all kinds of things.

I was supposed to help? I thought my job was to pour gasoline on fires.

It’s right there in my job description: “other duties as required.”

Must. Stop. Fingers.

I was about to write that I was a big girl who could take it, but that’s not even close to being veiled.

most people are unhappy when they have to tell lies all the time. Some are dumb/principled enough to lose pay over it.

If they “have” to tell lies, sure. But a lot of them want to. The thrill of power, of having people believe stuff they shouldn’t, just because you said it, is enormous. The sense of community, of belonging to this group of people who change reality (or at least the perception of it), of getting lots of favorable crosslinks from people who claim to think exactly what you do… there is a lot of happiness in that for some people. Especially when you say something in a new, powerful way that pushes the agenda.

Certainly way more happiness than would come from piddling concepts like “honesty” or “self awareness”.

And deep down, they don’t really believe it matters. They got there’s. Nothing is going to take it away from them. Whatever misfortunes fall upon the world from their words, it isn’t likely to affect them at all. Who cares of Bangladesh submerges, or species go extinct, or plague breaks out, or unemployment reaches 20%. They got there’s.

If there is emptiness inside any of them, it is walled off by self satisfied contentment. Those parts didn’t get them where they are, and so they probably aren’t very important.

It’s right there in my job description: “other duties as required.”

Are you sure they spelled doodies right?

there is a lot of happiness in that for some people. Especially when you say something in a new, powerful way that pushes the agenda.

Certainly way more happiness than would come from piddling concepts like “honesty” or “self awareness”.

Oh, definitely. I think for a lot of people, this is just a game that they want to win. That, to me, is one of the biggest changes I’ve observed in politics and governance even over the course of my life.

The thrill of power, of having people believe stuff they shouldn’t, just because you said it, is enormous.

(cf Michelle Malkin)

Are you sure they spelled doodies right?

Pretty sure. Being housebroken is a huge competitive advantage over other database administrators. Of course that didn’t stop me from spilling quite a bit of ketchup on my shirt at lunch. *grumble*

And I think the community thing is a good point, too. Beyond just getting recognition from others, you also don’t have anyone “legitimate” telling you you’re a fucked up, amoral asshole. It’s more than just an echo chamber–it’s an echo chamber that’s further reinforced by the opposition of their “enemies.”

You know who will be an interesting test of the “will they or won’t they sell out” theory?

Irk Irksome. On the one hand, CNN hired him to attract ratings (like they had Beck on HLN *snark*) so he’ll have to be strident and extremist.

On the other, he’s going to have a rein on him. Now, the question is, will that affect only his spewings on CNN or will we actually see a moderation in tone at RedState?

So far, he’s been as big a bumbling blustering idiot at RS as always, as the Manzi-Levin thing has brought out, but it’s really too early to see if he moderates at all.

SparklePENIS!

OK, I went and looked. Seriously, parody? Go look. It’s got to be.

Of course that didn’t stop me from spilling quite a bit of ketchup on my shirt at lunch.

Oh, that sucks. I’ve spilled coffee, yogurt, and Diet Coke on my skirt today. Of course, that’s just a typical Friday for me, and at least they don’t stain.

Oh, that sucks. I’ve spilled coffee, yogurt, and Diet Coke on my skirt today. Of course, that’s just a typical Friday for me, and at least they don’t stain.

I am trying to think of it as “accessorizing with ketchup” rather than ruining a shirt, but it isn’t working.

Yeah, they’re stuck until to the end, whernever it goes.

Sorry, I hadda do it.

I’ve spilled coffee, yogurt, and Diet Coke on my skirt today.

Gee…I wonder how that happened

*ordering a replacement case of dribble coffee cups, yogurt containers and cans of Diet Coke*

Dammit, Peej. I had *just* managed to banish that from my mind.

I am trying to think of it as “accessorizing with ketchup” rather than ruining a shirt, but it isn’t working.

This is why I only wear dark clothing.

Well, maybe Friedman. There’s still good in him. I sense it.

If it involves killing him for that good to materialize, I support that.

quite a bit of ketchup on my shirt at lunch

For shame. Really, ice cream for lunch?

I am trying to think of it as “accessorizing with ketchup” rather than ruining a shirt

“I got into a fight with a gang of hoodlums who were harassing this young lady. Someone must defend her honor from these rapscallions” is the only excuse you need.

If it involves killing him for that good to materialize, I support that.

So you want him batting for your side, huh?

*ordering a replacement case of dribble coffee cups, yogurt containers and cans of Diet Coke*

Thanks, but I really don’t need the help.

Thanks, but I really don’t need the help.

Drinking problem, huh?

Oh, that sucks. I’ve spilled coffee, yogurt, and Diet Coke on my skirt today.

You know, if you video that, there are web sites that will serve people with interests, perhaps even send out a newsletter for you….

Drinking problem, huh?

Quite literally, yes.

You know, if you video that, there are web sites that will serve people with interests, perhaps even send out a newsletter for you….

Good Lord, that’s a strange fetish.

Where do I sign up?

You know, if you video that, there are web sites that will serve people with interests, perhaps even send out a newsletter for you….

THANK YOU!

My quota of innuendo had run out for the week. I’m waiting for Fedex to deliver a fresh supply in the morning.

For shame. Really, ice cream for lunch?

no, not ice cream. If it was ice cream it would have been an ice cream stain. …or hot sauce, probably not chutney though.

So you want him batting for your side, huh?

O HELL NO.

Zombeez got some standards. We also need someone who has some abilities outside of appearing on TV saying stupid shit. Those are the people we EAT.

Good Lord, that’s a strange fetish.

RULE 34.

Google search Wet and Messy. Or so actor tells me.

Those are the people we EAT.

Huh. I figured his brains had been already eaten.

Google search Wet and Messy. Or so actor tells me.

Why I said no such thing!

And I hope my check bounces, you bastard.

Huh. I figured his brains had been already eaten.

Many zombies have discovered that most parts of the breather are edible, if not downright delicious.

Somehow, this seems oddly not OT.

Good Lord, that’s a strange fetish.

…wait. didn’t you post the caterpillar thing?

Somehow, this seems oddly not OT.

COCKTAIL TIME.

Somehow, this seems oddly not OT.

It just hit me that my hated co-worker looks like a younger, bonier version of her with frizzier hair. And worse clothes. I think it’s the slightly deranged look in her eyes along with the black eyeliner…*shudder*

…wait. didn’t you post the caterpillar thing?

Yes, but it wasn’t an endorsement.

UGH.

Where do I sign up?

I would guess somewhere in Japan, a.k.a. Rule 34 Island.

If they “have” to tell lies, sure. But a lot of them want to.

Sure, and I guess as another counterargument to what I said above you’d think any/all of the sharp ones with a conscience would have packed up by now (keeping in mind that we’re talking about the elite opinionmakers).

Yes, but it wasn’t an endorsement.

so you did it because you hate us?

And what fucking fresh hell is this?

Yes, but it wasn’t an endorsement.

so you did it because you hate us?

Go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back up to my “smell this” statement.

And, Jesus Christ, I have done NOTHING today.

And what fucking fresh hell is this?

First comment there:

How does this woman have a television show? This? isn’t cooking, this is the kind of crap you come up with when you come home drunk

I like that she says “be careful with the knife”

And, Jesus Christ, I have done NOTHING today.

You make that sound like a bad thing!

Go waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back up to my “smell this” statement.

mmm, yeah….fish has already trained me well in being EXTREMELY FUCKING CAREFUL in clicking links from ostensible friends….

And, Jesus Christ, I have done NOTHING today.

I had a pretty good meeting on a potential project….

And I haven’t fallen off a building or started one on fire, so I am doing pretty good by engineer standards!

And, Jesus Christ, I have done NOTHING today.

You make that sound like a bad thing!

Well, I’m at work, so it kind of is. At the very least, I am a leech who sponges off the government and needs to get a real job.

And I haven’t fallen off a building or started one on fire, so I am doing pretty good by engineer standards!

It’s like the engineer version of not spilling coffee or Diet Coke or yogurt on your clothes!

But as both Andy and I have noted, global warming is an area that illuminates liberalism’s “epistemic closure” far, far, far more than the Right’s.

Because unlike the righties we’re totally unwilling to look at the preponderance of evidence and qualified scientific opinion

Seriously, though, did anyone EVER address Manzi’s actual points?

most people are unhappy when they have to tell lies all the time. Some are dumb/principled enough to lose pay over it.

I wonder what the actual percentage is. I read recently that a large number of clergy aren’t actually believers. I suppose they at least have the benefit of thinking their dishonesty helps people who need comfort, etc, but I bet even the Republicans who absolutely know they are lying about particulars can invent moral justifications for it, e.g. “saving the world from enviro-aborto-socialism” or “making the world safe for zombie Reaganism” or something.

It’s like the engineer version of not spilling coffee or Diet Coke or yogurt on your clothes!

I am also pretty certain there is interest in websites and newsletters devoted to starting buildings on fire or falling off them, too!

And, Jesus Christ, I have done NOTHING today.

I finished weeding the garden, transplanted some plants, started breaking in the hammock, and did my part in the vital task of keeping the beer level in the house below the danger threshold.

Also: TESTICLES.

And what fucking fresh hell is this?

I don’t watch teevee hardly ‘tall so itt comes as something of a surprise that FoodTV has a comedy show. That shit is teh funnay.

And what fucking fresh hell is this?

No, no, the beer is just “Fucking Hell” — “Fucking Fresh Hell, now with Lemon” is some sort of new-agey concoction, without any lemon.

I finished weeding the garden, transplanted some plants, started breaking in the hammock, and did my part in the vital task of keeping the beer level in the house below the danger threshold.

I sent five emails and scanned some stuff…ooh, also, I emptied my recycling.

And what fucking fresh hell is this?

Now, I think potatoes are versatile as hell, but GOOD GOD WOMAN.

Sure, and I guess as another counterargument to what I said above you’d think any/all of the sharp ones with a conscience would have packed up by now

Good point. How old or how long in the game were Brock or John Cole before they couldn’t do it anymore? Ariana was no spring chicken (though I completely crushed on her even when she was doing the “strange bedfellows” bit with Franken), but I hadn’t really seen her more than a few years in public before turned away from the dark side.

Or maybe Al Franken is just that good in bed… 🙂 I wonder if he could flip Pam Geller…

hough I completely crushed on her even when she was doing the “strange bedfellows”

Arianna in satiny lingerie…. I am with you, my friend.

Or maybe Al Franken is just that good in bed… 🙂 I wonder if he could flip Pam Geller…

I would not wish that on my worst enemy.

Or maybe Al Franken is just that good in bed… 🙂 I wonder if he could flip Pam Geller…

Shut up. PLEASE shut up.

It’s a little like trying to get a Tourette’s victim to sit still through an opera.

I for one would attend any opera sung by an all-Tourettes cast.

I for one would attend any opera sung by an all-Tourettes cast.

I for one, think I already HAVE.

I was talking about the 21:12 link, but seeing as how it deprived me of the opportunity of laughing at Pantload I have to recant my statement.

Is no thread safe from Rush references?

I suspect most of Pam’s sex life involved guys just trying to get her to shut up for a while.

I was talking about the 21:12 link

Is no thread safe from Rush references?

♬ We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx ♬

I bet even the Republicans who absolutely know they are lying about particulars can invent moral justifications for it

Yup, and it’s not as if people don’t do that all the time anyway. What do you figure the ratio of Republican opinionators with a conscience vs. opinionators who are too egotistical to admit error is? I mean, decent chance that Manzi is just as much of an egotist as Levin, right? It might not be about the “purity of the movement” but about being right at all costs.

On domestic policy, I think the intellectual right doesn’t have nearly as much of a close-mindedness problem as many people seem to think.

Yeah, the intellectual right represents both points of view on climate change: denialist and skeptic.

As for Surber’s blarg, I guess it was only a matter of time until someone applied the “liberals are the real racists” canard to GLBT issues. No doubt Malkin will soon excrete a column where she cites Obama’s three dozen or so openly gay or lesbian nominees as evidence of his virulent homophobia.

I suspect most of Pam’s sex life involved guys just trying to get her to shut up for a while.

That doesn’t seem too difficult; she has a pair of built-in saline ball gags. Now shutting Coulter up, that’s another story entirely.

But as both Andy and I have noted, global warming is an area that illuminates liberalism’s “epistemic closure” far, far, far more than the Right’s.

Oh those perfidious liberals, not only polarising opinions on AGW so that acceptance / denial becomes a marker of political allegiance, but then forcing republicans to include AGW-denial as part of their purity tests for republican candidates.

All this talk about nuclear physics is hawt.
Have I ever mentioned my expertise in lattice gauge theory?

I was supposed to help? I thought my job was to pour gasoline on fires.

SWOON!

All this talk about nuclear physics is hawt.
Have I ever mentioned my expertise in lattice gauge theory?

RAWR.

Why does teh libruhl have so many more funny than teh other guyz?

It’s ‘boomerang’, not ‘boomarang’.

Just saying. Cause, you know.